REP-SF Urges Board of Supervisors to Reject Mayor’s Upzoning Plan
PRESS RELEASE for Tuesday, December 2, 2025
San Francisco, CA – Today, as the Board of Supervisors votes on the adoption of Mayor Lurie’s “Family Zoning Plan,” the Race & Equity in all Planning Coalition (REP-SF) urges the Board to reject this dangerous upzoning plan. For several months, REP-SF – alongside tenant advocates, small business owners, affordable housing groups, labor, and families – has been sounding the alarm about the Mayor’s upzoning plan, which, if passed, will increase speculation and accelerate the displacement of tenants and small businesses across the city.
The REP-SF coalition has been advocating for significant changes to the Family Zoning Plan, including a real commitment to truly affordable housing, and moving forward the equity-related provisions of the Housing Element that have been ignored, many of which are now past due. Unfortunately, we are now forced to demand that the Board reject or significantly amend the Family Zoning Plan.
Through the Land Use Committee hearings, Supervisors and the Planning Department evaluated proposed amendments against certain criteria that the State might use to evaluate the final upzoning plan. According to Planning staff, this evaluation process focused on market-rate housing because the upzoning is a market-rate housing plan. REP-SF urges a similar evaluation for affordable housing, which according to the Housing Element is supposed to add up to 57% of the housing produced in San Francisco. This evaluation would involve asking if the Mayor's Family Upzoning Plan would:
Increase financial feasibility for affordable housing;
Increase capacity for affordable housing;
Would speed up delivery of affordable housing; and
Would create new constraints on development of truly affordable housing.
Unfortunately, the Family Upzoning Plan results in a negative response to each of these four criteria.
One of the main reasons for our objection to the Family Zoning Plan relates to the Tenant Protection Ordinance (TPO), which the Mayor's upzoning makes absolutely essential. The TPO tries to establish a strong safety net for when tenants have to face displacement. However, streamlining and upzoning from the state and streamlining and zoning that we've already put in place in San Francisco create pressures and impacts that exceed what the TPO can provide. This Family Zoning Plan will just put fuel on that fire.
State law imposes strict limitations on the extent of protections it can provide for tenants. This, combined with further developer incentives in the upzoning plan and the negligible amount of affordable housing in the upzoning plan, makes it imperative for REP-SF to demand that the Board reject this upzoning plan; we urge our Supervisors to vote no, for the future of San Francisco and of our most vulnerable communities.
For more information, please read REP-SF’s Sept. 4 letter to Mayor Lurie, the Board of Supervisors, and the Planning Commission. Read REP-SF’s Advocacy Platform to learn more about our community solutions.
